Everything that the church celebrates in Mary proclaims the saving identity of her Son. His grace triumphed, but not without ...

Family and community are webs of relationships in which we call forth one another's humanity. More than that, family and ...

Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

During his homily, Cardinal Makrickas noted that the 2025 Jubilee has been a unique event in the recent history of the Church ...

Perhaps some of the worst people to explain the real meaning of Christmas are those who claim to believe in its central ...

Briefly put, the Holy Trinity is the belief that the one God subsists in Three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, Jesus (Who took on flesh in the incarnation and became Man), and God the Holy ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...

Adapted from an Ethics at Noon presentation given at Santa Clara University on 25 September 2001. In spite of the many differences among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, they share a fundamental belief ...

If you've ever been to a Catholic Church, you may have seen little reservoirs of water by each door opening. People put a finger into the water and then dab their forehead, making the sign of a cross ...

Modern people often regard the idea of a holy war as a contradiction. Killing thousands of people and causing wholesale destruction seems to be as far from holiness as one can get. But religion and ...